:12:00
my specialists are in agreement
:12:02
This morning's letter is not Kruschev
Last night's letter was
:12:04
The evidence supports
only one conclusion
:12:07
There's been a coup
and Kruschev was replaced overnight
:12:12
Dean?
:12:14
It does suggest he's been co-opted
by hard-line elements
:12:17
Which at the end of the day
amounts to the same thing
:12:20
A puppet Kruschev
:12:21
and a hard-line Soviet government
pulling the strings
:12:24
No deal. And the missiles
are almost operational
:12:27
What if the Soviets have no intention
of honoring this second deal?
:12:30
The tomorrow
they make another condition
:12:32
Meanwhile
the quarantine isn't working
:12:35
and they're completing work
on the missiles sites
:12:38
Sir, I think we have to issue
pre- invasion orders for our forces
:12:42
Mr. President
:12:44
This morning's photography is in
:12:47
It appears the Soviet have commenced a
crash program to ready their missiles
:12:51
The first missiles
become operational last night
:12:54
We expect they'll all be operational
in 36 hours
:12:57
Then we're out of time
:12:59
We have to go in
:13:00
That may not be
as easy as we thought, either
:13:02
We have confirmation
the Soviets have also deployed
:13:05
battlefield nuclear weapons to Cuba
:13:07
FROGS, we call them
:13:08
Short- range tactical nukes
:13:10
We don't know whether
they've delegated release authority
:13:13
to their local commanders
for use on our invasion troops
:13:17
But the good news is
as of this moment
:13:19
we know where the FROGS are
and we can target them, too
:13:23
But the longer we wait
the harder it's going to get
:13:43
We have no choice
:13:49
General, issue orders to our forces
:13:52
to be prepared to execute
the air strikes Monday morning
:13:55
and the follow-on invasion
according to the schedule thereafter